3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards

3rd SAG Awards

1997

----Best Cast - Motion Picture:
The Birdcage ----Best Cast - Drama Series:
ER ----Best Cast - Comedy Series:
Seinfeld

The 3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards were given in March, 1997.

Nominees and Recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

*Tom Cruise - "Jerry Maguire"
*Ralph Fiennes - "The English Patient"
*Woody Harrelson - "The People vs. Larry Flynt"
*"' Geoffrey Rush - "Shine"
*Billy Bob Thornton - "Sling Blade"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

*Brenda Blethyn - "Secrets & Lies"
*Diane Keaton - "Marvin's Room"
*"' Frances McDormand - "Fargo"
*Gena Rowlands - "Unhook the Stars"
*Kristin Scott Thomas - "The English Patient"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

*Hank Azaria - "The Birdcage"
*"' Cuba Gooding, Jr. - "Jerry Maguire"
*Nathan Lane - "The Birdcage"
*William H. Macy - "Fargo"
*Noah Taylor - "Shine"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

*"' Lauren Bacall - "The Mirror Has Two Faces"
*Juliette Binoche - "The English Patient"
*Marisa Tomei - "Unhook the Stars"
*Gwen Verdon - "Marvin's Room"
*Renée Zellweger - "Jerry Maguire"

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

*"' "The Birdcage":Hank Azaria:Calista Flockhart:Dan Futterman:Gene Hackman:Nathan Lane:Dianne Wiest:Robin Williams
*"The English Patient"
*"Marvin's Room"
*"Shine"
*"Sling Blade"

Television

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

*Armand Assante - "Gotti"
*Beau Bridges - "Hidden in America"
*Robert Duvall - "The Man Who Captured Eichmann"
*Ed Harris - "Riders of the Purple Sage"
*Alan Rickman - '

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

*Anne Bancroft - "Homecoming"
*"' Kathy Bates - "The Late Shift"
*Stockard Channing - "An Unexpected Family"
*Jena Malone - "Bastard Out of Carolina"
*Cicely Tyson - "The Road to Galveston"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

*George Clooney - "ER"
*David Duchovny - "The X Files"
*Anthony Edwards - "ER"
*"' Dennis Franz - "NYPD Blue"
*Jimmy Smits - "NYPD Blue"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

*"' Gillian Anderson - "The X-Files"
*Kim Delaney - "NYPD Blue"
*Christine Lahti - "Chicago Hope"
*Della Reese - "Touched by an Angel"
*Jane Seymour - "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

*Jason Alexander - "Seinfeld"
*Kelsey Grammer - "Frasier"
*"' John Lithgow - "3rd Rock from the Sun"
*David Hyde Pierce - "Frasier"
*Michael Richards - "Seinfeld"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

*Christine Baranski - "Cybill"
*Ellen DeGeneres - "Ellen"
*Helen Hunt - "Mad About You"
*Kristen Johnston - "3rd Rock from the Sun"
*"' Julia Louis-Dreyfus - "Seinfeld"

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

*"Chicago Hope"
*"' "ER":George Clooney:Anthony Edwards:Laura Innes:Eriq La Salle:Julianna Margulies:Gloria Reuben:Sherry Stringfield:Noah Wyle
*"Law & Order"
*"NYPD Blue"
*"The X Files"

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

*"3rd Rock from the Sun"
*"Frasier"
*"Mad About You"
*"Remember WENN"
*"' "Seinfeld" :Jason Alexander:Julia Louis-Dreyfus:Michael Richards:Jerry Seinfeld

Life Achievement Award

*Screen Actors Guild Awards 33rd Annual Life Achievement Award:
**Angela Lansbury